All-optical stopping and quantum coherent storage of light

Mehmet Fatih Yanik; Shanhui Fan

doi:10.1117/12.555433

9 July 2004 All-optical stopping and quantum coherent storage of light

Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Shanhui Fan

Proceedings Volume 5360, Photonic Crystal Materials and Devices II; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.555433
Event: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices 2004, 2004, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

We show that light pulses can be stopped and stored all-optically, with a process that involves an adiabatic and reversible pulse bandwidth compression occurring entirely in the optical domain. Such a process overcomes the fundamental bandwidth-delay constraint in optics, and can generate arbitrarily small group velocities for any light pulse with a given bandwidth, without the use of any coherent or resonant light-matter interactions. We exhibit this process in optical resonator systems, where the pulse bandwidth compression is accomplished only by small refractive index modulations performed at moderate speeds. The optically achievable ultra low speeds can also generate extremely large non-linearities using non-resonant interactions, and thus enable decoherence-free single photon quantum gates.

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Mehmet Fatih Yanik and Shanhui Fan "All-optical stopping and quantum coherent storage of light", Proc. SPIE 5360, Photonic Crystal Materials and Devices II, (9 July 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.555433

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